In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Miller, a top White House adviser, dismissed the international law treaty guarantees ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Legal principles matter as two major democracies—Taiwan and Ukraine—are threatened by superpower neighbors. Whether one argues about ...

OP-ED. No matter the crimes committed by Nicolás Maduro or the manner in which he was elected, only the Venezuelan people have the authority to determine their future, argues international law ...

The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does not relieve him from responsibility under ...

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, discusses the constitutional violations resulting from the executive order banning nationals from six ...

International law consists of binding legal obligations among sovereign states. Two of the basic principles of the international legal system are that sovereign states are legally equal and ...

On 16 January 2026, India unilaterally approved the Dulhasti Stage-II Hydropower Project on the Chenab River, following its suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in April 2025, a treaty signed ...

Legal scholars such as Iqbal Jhazbhay and Michael Walls have argued that Somaliland’s case is unique: it is not a ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is generally agreed to be the foundation of international human rights law. Adopted in 1948, the UDHR has inspired a rich body of legally binding ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In a speech two weeks ago, Harold Koh stated that the United States government ...

The proposed CCW protocol poses a threat to the ban on cluster munitions that has been much discussed and should continue to be. But the problem does not end there. The proposed protocol would also ...

FIU Law is preparing students to become outstanding professionals ready to practice in an increasingly international and globalized landscape. “Unlike most law schools in the U.S. which focus only on ...